37th Denton Conference in Implicit Religion

37th Denton Conference in Implicit Religion:
6 pm Fri  9  May - 2 pm Sun  11 May  2014


EMERGING PROGRAMME

For a whole motley of reasons, this year we still have room for 2 or 3 more Contributors/Participants: enquiries invited by Edward Bailey

The following Papers are currently booked:

Perceiving through Similitude    
Neville Emslie, Diocese of Canterbury

Implicit Religion, Explicit Religion, and Attitudes towards Substances:  an empirical enquiry  
Leslie Francis, University of Warwick

Tintin as a Catholic hero:  the dissemination of Catholicism in popular culture    
Kees de Groot, Tilburg University.  

Explicit and Implicit Responses to Celtic Christianity:  an empirical study    
Gill Hall, Glyndwr University

The Implicit Religions present in the Climate Change debate, and our societal response to 'Acts of God'    
Ted Harrison (formerly) BBC 

Winterwandering on Snowshoes:  manifestations of transcendence in participants' mind maps    
Ivo Jirasek, Palacky University, Czech Republic.

Vocational Faiths:   three styles of (social) scientific commitment:  Max Weber, Edward Shils, David Martin    
William Keenan, Hope University, Liverpool

The Explicit and Implicit Religious Dimensions of Technology (tbc)    
Guy Menard, Université de Québec à Montréal

Calvinism without God:  American environmentalism as implicit Calvinism    
Robert Nelson, University of Maryland

Atheist Religion, Atheist Spirituality    
Tatjana  Schnell, University of Innsbruck, Austria.

The Orange Order:  a religious institution, or an expression of implicit religious spinning?  
Francis Stewart, University of Stirling

The Jews of India:  ritual, identity, and the caste system    
Tahmina Tariq, Concordia University,   Montreal

Leisure Makes the World Go Round    
Dermot Tredget OSB, St Mary's University, Twickenham


PRACTICALITIES

The all-inclusive cost of this residential Conference Weekend, held at Denton Hall, Ilkley, West Yorks, is £145. 

For further information, please see www.implicitreligion.org

Edward Bailey.

President BASS (British Association for the Study of Spirituality) www.basspirituality.org.uk
Editor Implicit Religion www.equinoxpub.com/IR
Founder CSIRCS www.implicitreligion.org

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